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Polyglot Bible: Lamentations: Lamentations 5

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This is a synoptic presentation of Lamentations 5 (the book's final chapter) displayed in four parallel versions: the Hebrew Masoretic Text, the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, and the King James English translation. The work belongs to the biblical lament tradition — a communal dirge in the voice of a devastated Jerusalem following the Babylonian destruction. Its content is a catalogue of national suffering: loss of land and homes to foreigners, orphaned children, women violated, elders humiliated, forced labor, famine, and subjugation under foreign powers. A distinctive theological tension runs through the chapter: the community confesses that their fathers sinned and they bear the inherited punishment, yet they also protest what feels like abandonment by a God whose eternal throne is never in doubt. The chapter closes with unresolved anguish — a plea for restoration ("turn us back to you, O LORD") immediately undercut by the fear that God may have utterly and permanently rejected them — making it one of the bleakest endings in the biblical canon, unusual for a prayer psalm in that it offers no confident resolution.

Polyglot Bible: Lamentations: Lamentations 5

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